The Straits Budget, 22 January 1964

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    • 210 2  -  PARENT Bata Gajah Lower Certificate of Education examination results are out and once again we see many disappointed faces. To some this disappointment is even greater, because having obtained the necessary credits and passes for a promotion they have failed the examination as a result of
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    • 157 2  -  S.C. THONG Ag. Director of Education Singapore ris unfair of “Parent” (S.T. Jan. 11) to impute that teachers are forced to take the Std. II Malay examination. The fact is that when teachers are appointed they know that under the terms and conditions of their service they are
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    • 152 2  -  T. H. CHAI Singapore SINCE the invasion of second-hand car dealers, Middle Road, Prinsep Street, Albert Street, Short Street, and possibly all the streets nearby have been transformed into temporary resting places for vehicles of all shapes and sizes. They have even spilled on to the pathways and
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    • 40 2  -  LISTENER Teluk Anson I AM surprised that after the formation of Malaysia the radio stations of Sarawak and Sabah still relay news from the BBC and other sources. I suggest that news be relayed from Kuala Lumpur instead.
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    • 198 2  -  ABDUL RAHMAN bin HAJI YUSOFF Ministry of Commerce and Industry Kuala Lumpur I REFER to a report (S.T. Jan. 13) in which it was 1 stated that the Government is to embark on a programme to train Malays in retail business. In my speech at the general
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    • 249 2  -  MOTORI r Singapore IF you own a car In Singapore, don’t drive it. Walk! For if you drive it, you must park it. And the traffic department is beating its brains out trying to find new and more effective ways to
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    • 125 2  -  CDF Singapore AM in full agreement with the views on the Widows and Orphans Fund. I understand that one of the reasons why the Government is loath to change the present outdated colonial practice is because it finds the W O fund an excellent source of income for
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    • 74 2  -  RESIDKNT Singapore VOU may wish to publish this warning. While I was out from the house two men called to carry away my TV set informing my servant that I had told them to do so. It so happened that I had had It repaired the previous even,
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    • 156 2  -  LAV \N Singapore r JTIE suggestion by the Minister of Health In Kuala Lumpur recently that young doctors should be required by law to serve the Government for a number of years after graduation is an excellent one and should be implement t*d at
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    • 268 2  -  VIGILANT p 4 Petaling Jaya YOUR comment on the runaway prices on the Malayan Stock Exchange was both timely and to the point. I would like, however, to point out the four main factors causing this “runaway”: The small number of shares of the new issues which are
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    • 46 2  -  t L. Malim Nawar IS not the simple v deal with extrava v and gambling on thu exchange for legislat be introduced to t buyers of shares to r« these and that a per four or six months elapse before the shar be sold?
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    • 711 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 13 \Ve sh;H Know in perhaps SIX month time whether the Manila Ur summit was worth any oi the time and attention that has been paid to it. The communique pub),,hed at th< end of these presidential talks in some w IVS
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    • 274 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 13 Dato Sardon was perhaps being too cautious when he described Malay progress in the transport industry as only “steady”. His own figures indicate that development has in fact been considerable and that Malays are now well enough entrenched in the transport business to expand
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    • 331 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 14 Teachers were much too busy yesterday but many other Malayans must have been moved by the opening of a new school year to ponder the country’s educational progress. Generally they must have found it satisfying. Enrolments have been rising steadily, primary school registrations
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    • 669 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 15 Concern in the Philippines for an end of “confrontation and an amicable settlement of the Malaysian dispute is fully shared by the Malaysian Government. But President Macapagal cannot expect much enthusiasm tor the setting in which he proposes talks should begin. Tun Kazak
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    • 384 3 Straits Times. Jan. 15 Medical organisations have not yet expressed any opinion on the Health Minister s proposed “national service’ for newly trained Malaysian doctors but it is not hard to predict what their reaction will be. 1 Already some doctors have j separately attacked the idea ol
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    • 165 4 —Straits Times. Jan. 15 Mr. Tan Siew Sin must find it very difficult to sit through some of the Opposition criticism hurled at his head. After years spent trying to stretch limited resources in unlimited ways he must feel jibes about budget deficiencies more remarkable for their lack
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    • 646 4 —Straits Times. Jan. 16 President Macapagal can scarcely expect any further encouragement to initiate Malaysian talks than the Tengku has now given hi: .l. The Prime Minister is ready to meet him anywhere, at any time, as soon as he receives a formal invitation. The Tengku
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    • 386 4 —Straits Times. Jan. 16 Sabah’s labour shortage, an ancient problem, is now more acute than ever and threatens to hinder the State’s impressive development programme. An estimated 3,000 new workers a year are needed to maintain the pace of present development and the overall situation is probably worse,
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    • 365 4 —Straits Times. Jan. 17 The lobby working so vigorously for a university college for Penang will draw new strength from Dato Oppenheim’s latest visit to the island and from Dato Wong Pow Nee’s comment that the University of Malaya Vice-Chan-cellor was “very pleased” with the State Government’s
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    • 652 4 —Straits Times. Jar; Some indication of the possibility of a political settlement of the Malaysian dispute is the most that Mr. Robert Kennedy’s talks in Tokyo with President Soekarno are likely to accomplish. The prospects are dubious. No doubt President Soekarno’s ardour was dampened in Manila, and
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  • 329 5 TRAINING CENTRE ‘A PATHWAY’ PENANG, January 12. THE Chief Minister, Dato Wong Pow Nee, said yesterday it wa s imperative that agricultural education should be cxiiandcd not only in Malaya but all over Malaysia. Opening the new hostel for the Agricultural Training
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  • 247 5 KUALA TRENUGANU, January 12. THE eight members of the Board of Governors of the Sultan Suleiman Primary School here have resigned in protest against the removal of the school’s acting headmaster, Mr. T. A. Raman, who has been replaced by a “junior man”
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  • 29 5 SINGAPORE. Jan. 12. Mrs. Francis Lim. a teacner of the Singrpore Association for the Blind, will leave on Wednesday for Britain on a traininc-of-the-bllnd scholarship
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  • 105 5 J,i t P re ReljoL? 4 State Islamic AhmadM i,':?""'; 1 Ha J‘ ed !l 1 ’dav warnaction'' 1 1 y-V» *rtou» not f V h n i* they did ‘Ka'h\ ul n Puasa. auth‘ districts are ofV< u 10 Prosecute aid. that r.rVi! ald
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  • 150 5 KU AL A LUMPUR, Jan. 12. —Tne Minister oi Healtn, Inche a dci u,i Rahman bin Haji Talib, said today tnat the Government doctors would have to whereby all Malaysian plants to enact a law serve the Government for a certain period after
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  • 50 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 12. —'Two businessmen, Dato Ajit Singh and Mr Jiwan Singh left for New Delhi today to attend the wedding of the daughter of the Indian High Commissioner in Malaysia. Mr. Y K. Puri and Mrs. Purl. The marriage Is on Jan 21
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  • 276 5 HUNT FOR ‘THE MOST WANTED MAN KUALA LUMPUR, January 13. pOR the past 48 hours all exits from the capital have been sealed to prevent the escape of “the most wanted” man in Selangor, whom the police describe as “sickly looking.” Teoh Guan Hoo, 25, who has been charged in
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  • 36 5 TELUK ANSON. Jan. 19—A farmers' association was formed at Kampong Ayer Hitam. 1G miles from here, yesterday with Inche Harun bin Shahudin. the headman, as chairman and Inche Mohamed bin Salleh as the secretary.
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  • 127 5 SINGAPORE, Jan. 13 —The Singapore Malay Chamber of Commerce, which wants the Government to appoint a Malay as a member of every statutory board, including the Conomic Development Board, has officially communicated this request to the Minister of Social Affairs. Inche Othman Wok. The
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  • 43 5 PENANG. Jan. 13— Mr. Chcah Seong Paik has been re-elected chairman of the Penang Buddhist Association Sunday School Council. with Miss Maggie Oh as vicechairman and Mr FAiuan Teik Ewe hon. secretary Rev. Hooi Cheng will act as religious adviser
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  • 814 6 THORNEYCROFT COMPLETES HIS MALAYSIA TOUR: HIGH PRAISE FOR BORNEO SECURITY FORCES SINGAPORE January I 2 THE British Defence Minister, Mr. Peter Thorneycroft, said here today the actions of the security forces in the Borneo territories would further deter Indonesian terrorists from crossing the border. In
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  • 50 6 SINGAPORE. Jan. 13.—The Singapore Social Welfare Department doled cut more than $9 million as relief to the needy last year. About 25,300 families benefited from the department’s public assistance scheme each month. The department also paid out about $l.B million as allowances for tuberculosis patients.
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  • 56 6 Stolen —purse with $240 IPOH, Jan. 14 —Avegetable planter. frum Lenggong. llioon Yan, 53, nad his purse containing $240 lifted" from his trousers pocket at the Perak Tnrt Club race bourse here He went to ouy tickets loi a race out his purse which he had kept In a back
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  • 57 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 12—A lecturer In anthropology at the University of Malaya, Inche Mok hzani bin Abdul Rahim, left for London today to study at the London School of Economic for his ph. Inche Mokhznnl who is with the Department of Economics, will return
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  • 523 6 Approved: $5O million to meet any emergency arising from confrontation KUALA LUMPUR January 13 CENATOR Kha w Kai Boh, Minister without Portfolio, told the Senate yesterday that Malaysia would agree to further talks with Indonesia only if she returned to
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  • 55 6 KLANG. Jan. 12. —Th<- ro»--J Council here is planning lie park and garden of acre site for the resident district The site being examm* 'lremelbvc Estate, about from thp town It will be the new $7 million hosnit ject. The council is expe< spend
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  • 448 7 Premier praises Razak for reply to Manila’s call for ‘summit’ SINGAPORE Jan. 12 THE Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, today accused President Soekarno of trying to isolate Malaysia from her neighbours. This, he said, was President Soekarno’s intention in his latest move to get
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  • 158 7 Kuala lumpur, Jan. 13.—A proposal for a Pacific Asian Treaty Organisation was made in the Senate today. Senator Dato Sir Clough Thuraisingham said the organisation called PATO should include Maphilindo countries, as well as Brunei, Thailand, Australia and New Zealand. He said these were
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  • 269 7 1M AI,\ M MPl'R. Jan. 14. |V -’llir visiting Com-nunder-in-Chief of the 1$ Paiifie Korees. Admiral !larr> IF Kelt, today confirmed that he had delivered a ’message ut greetings” to Tengku \bdul Rahman from Presdtnt A1 uapug.il. 1 he message of greetings he told reporters
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  • 28 7 SlN’Q4p f Professor ondor, n -'f>d of the v l 'Vs cs Deoartlect ure at the ea 're N > r lv lecture p.m. on Jan
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  • 26 7 KAJANG, Jan 14 Hoh Yoon Loy. 23. was killed yesterday when the van he was driving overturned at the 25th mile. KajangSeremban road-
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  • 75 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 14—The Royal Malaysian Air Force volunteer reserve needs more part-time airmen as air police. They will be trained In the evenings and at weekends They will be given travelling allowances and yearly oounties based jn the number of attendances. Candidates must be Federal
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  • 40 7 SINGAPORE, Jan 14—A leading American Methodist preacher. Dr. Donald E. Barnes, will visit Methodist churches and schools in Malaysia soon. During his tour Dr. Barnes will conduct a series of gospel meeting in Singapore and Malaya
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  • 112 7 SINGAPORE. Jan. 14. Two Singapore delegates who flew to Bangkok today for tomorrow’s conference of the Ecafe committee on trade went for the first time—as membprs of the Malaysian team. They are Mr Tav Soon Hoe. assistant secretary of tiie Trade Division in
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  • 887 8 Redistribution of wealth —Tan’s warning on premature bids ‘We’ve only to look around at some of economic wrecks created by such moves in new nations’ By Our Parliamentary Reporters KUALA LUMPUR January 13 did not provide for an equitable sharing of prosperity. He said 44 per cent of this year’s
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  • 543 8 r JpHE Minister oi Finance, Mr. Tan Siew Sin, yesterday warned against ‘‘premature attempts at introducing elaborate income redistribution measures." Speaking in the Senate on the Supply Bill, Mr. Tan said that while high income countries could afford these measures, they
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  • 45 8 SEREMBAN, Jan. 14—Telephone collections ol $2 50 kept locked In n cupboard of the Mah-San police station five miles from here were stolen over the weekend One of the two policemen who took over duty this morning found the cupboard broken open.
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  • 85 8 IZOTA BHARU, Jan. 14. 1V The Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, is expected to appoint Dato Nik Kamil, former ambassador to the United States, leader of the Kelantan State Alliance. Dato Nik Kamil, who was once the State’s Mentri rejoined Umno recent! He
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  • 265 9 Singapore Government acts on an appeal by the port workers SINGAPORE, Jan. 12 THE Singapore Gov1 eminent has decided to allow an appeal by a group of port workers against cancellation of the certificate ot registration of the Singapore Harbour Board Stall Association subject
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  • 167 9 DENAN'G, Jan. 14. A Home-sick Malaysian girl studying philosophy, politics and economics in the United States will be receiving a unique present on her 21st birthday in March. Miss Ooi Cheng Gaik, daughter of the former Mayor of George Town, Mr.
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  • 49 9 SINGAPORE. Jan 14—The engine of an empty Caltex petrol tanker burst into flames when it crashed into a lamp-post at Merdeka Bridge at 130 am. today. A fire engine, which arrived within minutes of the crash, put out the fire. The driver was slightly injured
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  • 35 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 14—Oh Boon Chin, of Ipoh Road here, was fined $l5O in a magistrate's court yesterday for tailing to lodge a return of Income for the year of assessment 1963
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  • 27 9 KOTA TINGGI. Jan. 14 The Mentri Besar of Johore. Da to Hajl Hassan bin Haji Yunos, today opened a $12,000 riverine post office here.
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  • 275 9 PENANG, January 14. 4 "VERY PLEASED'* Vice-Chancellor of the Universify of Malaya returned to Kuala Lumpur today after inspecting prospective sites for the proposed university coliege on Penang Island. Dato Alexander Oppenheim and Chief Minister Dato Wong Pow Nee visited the proposed sites
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  • 166 9 ITUALA LUMPUR, Jan. v 14.—'Two senior offlcuils of the Ministry of External Affairs, Tengiz Mohamed bin Tengku Sri Akar, deW permanent secrecy. and Inc he Zainal bm S u 1 o n g, assistant secretary, have r r n named to aceom- ar v r
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  • 118 9 T»ELUK ANSON, Jan. A 14. An Alliance councillor. Dr. Ng Kam Poh, has appealed to the Perak Government for a substantial grant to build bunds around Teluk Anson to keep it from flooding by tides. He made the plea to the Mentri
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  • 56 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 14.—The former Minister of Finance, Tun H S Lee, and Toh Puan Lee, will hold a reception at the Chinese Assembly Hall here on Jan 25 to mark the return home of their daughter. Jasmine, and son-in-law Mr Robert K C Ooh. The couple
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  • 245 9 SINGAPORE, January 14. r J'HE Finance Minister, Dr. Goh Keng Swee, today disclosed that several more textile factories and a “substantial plant” to produce fabrics would go into production in the near future, providing more jobs for Singapore citizens. Officiating at the opening of Pelican
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  • 126 9 OEREMBAN, Jan. 15— Work on clearing 400 acres for an industrial centre here will start next month, the Negri Sembilan Government announced today. The site is between the fourth and fifth mile, Seremban Tampin road, and consists of 250 acres of rubber land
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  • 776 10 ‘WE MUST STRIVE TO UPHOLD THE TWIN PRINCIPLES OF LIBERTY AND JUSTICE, ON WHICH THE NATION WAS FOUNDED 9 Justice clear as mountain stream, true as reflection in mirror... SINGAPORE, January 12. r j'HE Chief Justice of Singapore. Mr. Justice Wee
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  • 97 10 JESSELTON, Jan. 15. It was not the policy of the Sabah Government to repatriate Indonesia labour, the Alliance Party announced today The party statement said: ‘Those who are in Sabah and who ar P lawabiding are welcome to stay and work for their livelihood
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  • 187 10 I/'UAL A LUMPUR, Jan. lv l4.—Two suggestions for countering the declining rubber prices were made in the Senate yesterday. SENATOR DATO SIR CHOUGH THURAISING HAM urged the Government to send more selling missions abroad, including China. SENATOR DATO CllEAlf toon LOCK urged the
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  • 288 11 BRITAIN COMPLAINS TO U.S. Of DIRECT SALE TO INDONESIA OF DEADLY MODERN WEAPON SINGAPORE, January 14 THE British Government is reported to have lodged a protest with the United States Government against the sale of the latest American rifles to Indonesia, which is using
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  • 806 11 Kuala Lumpur, January 14 r |'HE latest peace feelers from Manila were described as "promising" by Government sources here today. No official statement was forthcoming on the Philippine suggestion for a meeting between Tengku Abdul Rahman and President Macapagal through the good offices of
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  • 203 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 19. pARENT-TEACHER associations can contribute positively to the development of education in Malaya, as is being done in the United States. Mrs. R. F. Bhupalan. a teacher at the Methodist Boys School here and president of the Women’s Teachers Union, said
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  • 752 12 Defence makes submissions in shipping company case—judgment reserved KUALA LUMPUR, January 13 M R R. Ponnudurai, defending, said in the Sessions Court today that one man ought to be blamed for eight directors of the Malay German Shipping Company being charged
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  • 105 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 15.—The Minister for Social Affairs, Inche Othman Wok, today inspected the Bedok drainage scheme along the border of the Bedok and Changl constituencies. He was accompanied by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Education Ministry, Inche R.ahim Ishak, who Is Assemblyman for Bedok, and
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  • 369 12 Kuala lumfur Jan. 15. Ten-’ku Abdul Rahman said to. day he would not pro. test to the United States Government over the use of high, velocity Americanmade rifles by Indonesian terrorists in Sarawak. He said: ‘1 know the whole story about this
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  • 410 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 14 ipHE Industrial ArbiA tration Court today ruled that any form of industrial action while the parties in dispute were submitting a case before the court would constitute contempt of court and could be punished accordingly. The ruling was made after Mr
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  • 144 13 I/UALA LUMPUR, Jan. 15. —National service registration may end cn Jan. 22 instead of at the end of the month. The Comptroller of Manpower, Mr. S. Kumar, is considering this because very few people are now turning up to be registered. Originally, registration
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  • 55 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 16 The new Japanese Amu.u>sador to Malaysia, Mr Pumihiko Kai. will arrive nere on ruesday to take up his appointment Mr K n. 52. a tornur Director oi Economic Relations at the Japanese Ministry of Fure.gn AO a rs, win be accompanied by
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  • 41 13 SEREMBAN, Jan. 15—The Negri Som lan i i v< rnmi nt U» >ui d four-storey air-conditioned office !o.!> veal at* a cost ol $400,000 to house ’he secretariat. The s.te will be just behind the or*, sent secretariat.
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  • 26 13 MUAR. Jan 15—The Muar Historical Group i' mvesti-.ating reports that due to erosion, royal tombstones by the sea near here have been washed away.
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  • 111 13 OINGAPORE, Jan. 15The Registrar of Trade Unions. Mr. Wong Kah Yeow, has approved the n e w draft constitution of the Singapore Harbour Board Stall Association submitted by a 25-man negotiating committee on Jan. 13. In a letter informing the committee of his decision yesterday,
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  • 210 13 PENANG, Jan. 15.—The cargo ship Hal Wong nas deterred its departure from Penang following the death of two crew members, Chan Fook, 48. a fireman, and Yee Kor Chung. 25. a titter. They are believed to have oeen accidentally gassed
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  • 209 13 KUALA LUMPUR, January 15. r |UiE Minister of Education, Haji Abdul Hamid Khan, said tonight that the Government had set aside $1.5 million for minor scholarships to Help Malay schoolchildren of poor parents to continue their secondary education. This was $600,000 more than the
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  • 156 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 15 Jobber exports in u D re the years, lmo 71 008 tons coi* ult of the tZX of locaVm ::l from the i- with earlier hen ex17 per differ,. 1 s that the ed for ■i.ceof wa that certain types of rubber,
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  • 64 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 15 —The Malayan Indian Congress here will nold its annual delegates’ conference on Feb. 13 at a venue to be announced later The secretary-general, Mr. Arthur Pailo. has asked all branches to submit a report of their activities and accounts in 1963, a list of
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  • 124 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 15. Tht* Chief Minister of Sabah, Dato Donald Stephens, tonight spoke of “signs of improvement” in the border situation in his State. He said at the Singapore airport after flying in from Jesselton “YVe have chased the Indonesian terrorists into the jungles.
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  • 400 14 JESSELTON, January 15. CABAII would see many new roads, wharfs, schools and a new hospital under construction this year, the State Minister of Communications and Works, Dato Khoo Siak Chiew, said tonight. The minister was speaking over Radio Malaysia, Sabah, in the “Meet
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  • 245 14 IPOH, Jan. 15. —A mec- hanical monster, costing $BOO,OOO and weighing more than 40 tons, will have wheels fixed to it so that a railway engine can haul it from Port Swettenham to Ipoh. Cost of transportation for the 175-mile journey is
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  • 312 14 KUALA LUMPUR, January 14 CIIOULD Malaysians form themselves into consumer co-operative societies? This question was posed at the regional seminar on youth and co-operatives during the session on “The consumer and the co-operative society.’’ Mr. Marian Radetzki, of the International Co-ope-rative Alliance.
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  • 61 14 SINGAPORE. Jan. 14 The Straits Times has received two donations totalling $lO6 lor Tengku Hashim bin Tengku Pengiran Anum, 15, the hole-in-the-heart student ol the Malay College at Kuala Kangsar. who successlully underwent an operation in Bangkok recently The donations came from Inche Adam N Mohamed
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  • 152 14 Kuala lumpur, Jan. 15. The National Union of Telecoms Employees has dropped its plans for industrial action. This follows the recent assurance by the Prime Mlnlst- or. Tengku Abdul Rahman, that all claims by clerical unions alliliated to Cuepacs would be settled
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  • 145 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 15 A STRIKE at the Nanyang Siang Pau in Robinson Road was called of! on Jan. 13 through successful arbitration by a third party. The striking printing workers, represented by the Singapore Bookshops. Pub llcatlons and Printing Press Workers’ Union, went back
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  • 22 14 KAJANO, Jan. 14— The a schoolboy Ngoh It* was recovered from U River here near the U Reko Road, yesterday
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  • 485 15 Take n.n interest, says him see aflat Japanese did PENANG, Jan. 16. HE Minister of Commerce and Industry, Dr. Lim Swee Aun, today expressed surprise that the people of Penang ere pessimistic about industrialisation of the island. ••\Ve have now reached a stage in
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  • 239 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 16 —Before flying to Hong Kong today, Mr. David Rockefeller, president of New York’s Chase Manhattan Bank, spoke highly of the Singapore Government’s “forward planning and thoughtful approach” in encouraging industrial development. The banker, who visited the Jurong industrial complex on
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  • 65 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 15 —The following were elected directors of the Kuala Lumpur YM.CA.: Messrs T. Mori Sr., Lloyd B. de Run. J. V. Morals, Fred Wong Mook Chen, John A. Row, D. A. Ottmann, Paul Peter, D. G Frost, V. A. Abraham, T Mori Jnr., Ng Tow
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  • 399 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 15. is need for developing student cooperative organisations in South-East Asian schools and colleges but there must be safeguards against political influence and even subversion. This was generally agreed to by delegates from 11 countries attending the fifth day
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  • 184 15 SINGAPORE. Jan. 15. The new United Nations industrial adviser to the Economic Development Board, Mr. Robert Henri Faniel, today said he saw no limit to the type of industries that could be set up in Singapore. The distinguished Belgian economist said: “Any kind of
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  • 316 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 18. 'J'HE Government will train about 2,000 new teachers for primary schools this year, the Director of Teacher Training, Mr. Chang Min Kee, said today. And the chances are that they will be of a higher calibre holding Senior
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  • 151 16 Kuala lumpur, Jan. 19. The Petaling Jaya Development Corporation has ruled that no one may preach or deliver any public address or hold any religious or political meetings in Petaling Jaya parks without the permission of the Petaling Jaya Administrator. This is one of
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  • 189 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 16. Singapore’s Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, and the Chief Ministers of Sabah and Sarawak met Tengku Abdul Rahman at the Residency tonight to discuss the Malaysian “Truth Mission” to Africa. Mr. Lee flew in here last night. Sabahs
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  • 94 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 15.—The crowning of a 1 Miss Popularity 1964" will highlight the Malayan Association tor the Blind's ball, to be held at the Federal Hotel on Feb. 1, from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. The ball, a fund-raising project for the MAB.
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  • 367 16  -  By AUSTEN ZECHA KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 17.— Britain will increase her aid to Malaysia 1 1 the United States Attorney General, Mr. Robert F. Kennedy, does not succeed in persuading President Soekarno to call off his confrontation policy. The British High Commissi oner
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  • 55 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 16. The British High Commissioner. Viscount Head, us leaving here tomorrow by air for London, where he will take part in consultations with the British Government. Lord Head expects to return here bv the end of next week, a statement from the
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  • 27 16 IPOH, Jan. 14 The executive committee of the Malayan Leprosy Relief Association. Perak branch, will hold a meeting here on the every of Jun. 16.
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  • 128 16 lESSELTON, Jan. 15. Borneo Airways Employees’ Union announced in Labuan today that it had postponed its “go slow” campaign scheduled to come into effect tomorrow. The management held a three-hour discussions with union representatives and asked for time to take up union claims and
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  • 69 16 SINGAPORE. Jan. 15. faculty members of the Uriivcr-B of Singapore have been z'[. travel grants to the Unit* 3 by the Carnegie Corpor. New York. Prof R S. Milne. Prof* r Political Science, will exp' 1 teaching of political sclci programmes of South-Ea studies.
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  • 36 16 KAJANG, Jan. 15.—Mr. Yoon*? has been elected TV of the Kajang branch of layan Chinese AMOCiat Section. Other officials chairman. Mr Saw So* secretary. Mr. Chang F l treasurer, Mr. Low Poo»i 1
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  • 406 17 SINGAPORE. Jan. 16. MKETING between the Deputy Prime Minister, Dr. Toh Chin Chye, and a visitir;> > Japanese Government delegation here in 19til has led to the creation of a new multi:i dollar cable manufacturing plant at the Jurong industrial complex. The
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  • 172 17 SINGAPORE. Jan. 15Steps are now being taken to link up Party Negara of Sarawak with Umno of Malaya. This was disclosed in Singapore today by the chairman of Party Negara. Dato Bandar Abang Haji Mustapha. He said he was “working out the details” entailed
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  • 217 17 OiNGAPORE, Jan. 17. The Minister for Culture, Mr. S. Rajaratnam, said tonight that the People’s Action Party must start operating as a panMalaysian party on a pan Malaysian basis to help build a prosperous independent and peaceful Malaysia. He said the
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  • 48 17 PENANG. Jan. 16.— Twenty-one oosiuiants ano novices from live countries —Hong Kong. Ceylon. India Burma and Korea —will take rheir vestation and profession vows at tiie chapel of the Little Sisters of th- Poor tn Batu Lanchang Lane at 9 a m on Tuesday
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  • 399 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 17. gINGAPORE’S Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, said tonight that Malaysia welcomed the Indonesian line that Asian should settle Asian problems but added that they should also have the right to make sure they had the right friends
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  • 71 17 JOHORE BAHRU. Jan. 16.—Mr. M. A. Venugopal, ot the National Union of Plantation Workers, was re-elected chairman of the Malayan Trades Union Congress (Johore division) at the annual delegates' conference held at MTUC branch headquarters here at the weekend other oillciais elected were: Mr. S Padmanathan, of
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  • 57 17 JOHORE BAHRU, Jan. 15.—The Mentri Besar, Dato Haji Hassan bin Haji Yunos, yesterday launched a riverine post office boat which will serve about 7.000 kampong people living near the banks of the Sungei Johore. The boat, which is named Sri Albax, cost $12,000 and is
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  • 424 17 Kuala Lumpur January 17 THE Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Inche Mohamed Khir Johari, told senior drainage and irrigation engineers today that in view cf the Government’s new policy to diversify agriculture they should now plan for agricultural crops other than rice, rubber and coconut.
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  • 341 18 ‘GUNMAN TUGGED DESPERATELY AT OUR CAR DOORS, BUT COULD NOT OPEN THEM’ SINGAPORE, January 16 A GANG of three robbers—foiled in their bid to grab a briefcase containing $17,500 —this morning opened fire and wounded four men who had just left a soft drinks
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  • 211 18 SINGAPORE, Jan. 16. The New Malaysian High Commissioner to Australia and New Zealand, Tun Lim Yew Hock, tonight spoke of a three-point programme he intended to carry out in his new job. Speaking to reporters before leaving by aJ r for
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  • 51 18 SINGAPORE. Jan. 16. The Superintendent ol the Naval Base dockyard, Commodore R. C Paige, yesterday presented long service and good conduct testimonials to 13 Naval Base Employees, two of whom have retired This was the first time that the Naval Base authorities presented such testimonials to their
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  • 44 18 KAJANG, Jan. 19.—The Union of Teachers of Engl.sn in Vernacular Schoo s wants the Government to revise the salary scheme of its members. A resolution to this effect was passed at the annual delegates conference of the union here recently
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  • 57 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 19—The Deputy Director of Radio Malaysia. Inche Murtadza Za ba will leave for West Berlin on Feb 23 to represent Malaysia at a seminar on “Radio and television as a means tor education The seminar which Is from Feb 26 to March 24.
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  • 406 18 SINGAPORE, Jan. 17 4 YOUNG building sub-contractor, Mr. Yec A Eng Hock, paid with his life yesterday when he arrived at a construction site without $1,500 payroll he was expected to carry. For while Yeo. 27, was on a flight of steps leading
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  • 77 18 IPOH, Jan. 17.—Th. education Department he.t* ft* set up 25 post i :na schools throughout tlo Sta>j to take pupils who f• i d secondary schools er nCf examination last year Nineteen of the schools English and Malay medium the rest use only Malay The
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  • 836 19  -  By I JEEP 15—Peace1, who trilinvv the Sina- cger at his L n > spectacu’e:k to pay l2 7 in in the 6f [ppreut- race here :oday. B/tcj One CL. 1 3 6F rent ices) |ij j > KING 8 9 44) Kugdee 1 k m
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  • 794 19 JPOH.Jan. 19 —Lucky Stable took four races in a row here this afternoon. Race One CL 1, U1V 4—6F l.ytr.o.i S'.uo e's t2» Hjl in io carr 8.3 '£51-249) Samry 1 '3' Star Whistler 8 9 10—23.* Johnson 2 (1 > Consratulauons 8 12 Posner J
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  • 189 19 SINGAPOFE, Jan. 19.— The Singapore Manual and Mercantile Workers’ Union warned the management of Shaw Organisation Ltd. today that it would take industrial action unless there was a settlement of its claims for a new collective agreement for the company’s clerical workers Refused In a statement.
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 94 19 BIG SWEEPTOTAL POOL: $124 600 1st No *****4 ($30.83 a l 2nd No *****? ($15.4101 3rd No. *****2 ($7,709) STARTUPS (S659 each): Nos. *****8 *****5 *****2 *****6 *****3 *****2 *****0 *****2 *****!) 2G0258 *****1 *****6 *****5 CONSOLATION ($500 each): Noa *****4 *****5 *****2 *****6 *****1 *****? *****9 *****? *****6 *****8
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  • MALAYAN SHARE MARKET REVIEW
    • 2311 20 From Our Market Correspondent '['HERE was no real enthusiasm to deal on the Malayan Stock Exchange last week and the great majority of industrials were easier over the period, although on Saturday morning conditions seemed brighter following improved political news regarding Malaysia. The depression together with
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    • 27 20 January 17. MALAYAN RUBBER PRICE: 62% cents (down five-eighths of a cent). TIN: $525 (u n changed). Estimated unofficial offering 250 tons (up 5 tons).
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    • 68 20 THE Malayan Exchange Banka* A*»o--1 elation made these changes in Its rates to merchants yesterday (all rates to $100): Selling TT or OD ready: Holland Guilders 1174, French Francs 159 J. On the free exchange market In long Kong yesterday the U.B. dollar was quoted at 5.72 J
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    • 21 20 •VIJ“ Hi? “ft 4 H T.™ '"Si: to Srubb rs: A J”? saj l>rc. 29. 1962 =r 100
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    • 199 20 tOFFICIAL QUOTATIONS) January 17. Three months INDUSTRIALS Dunlops 18 eta. M. Cement 18 eta City Dev 5 eta. M Box 20 eta. E. Smelters 20 eta.McAlister 15 cts. Esso 18 cts. Robinson 12 eta. Ked Dlsp. 12 eta C storage 20 eta K. N. 20 eta, Rothmans 11
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    • 68 20 THE Malayan Exchange Banks' Atio ciatlon made this change in its rtaes to merchants on Saturday (the rate ts to $100): Selling TT or OD ready: Ooutsch* Marks 129 1/2 On the free exchange market ir. Hong Kong, the U S. dollar was quoted at 5 721 for
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    • 31 20 RUBBER TIN (per lb.) (per picul) Jan. 13. 62% cts. $525.87 14. 62% cts. $526.00 15. 62% cts. $524.37'i 16. 63 cts. $525.00 17. 62 cts. $525.00 18. $525.00
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    • 37 20 Current L»ate of Total Total for for previous payment payment vear >ear Gopens ls.t Feb. 28 Tanjong r in 2s.t Mar. 6 I™ 1101 9d.t Mar 13 Temerlol 7%t Feb 7 17-5, t Interim 1
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    • 700 20 A CTIVITY on le Malayan Ruh er Market has been at lowest level for s ne time and this could o e explained possibly oy the number of imp. n. derable factors w h which it is beset, st te H.C.B. Co. Ltd.
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    • 37 20 (Managers' Price*) First Malayan 2.09 Second Malayan 1.56 1 Third Malayan 1.12 I Malaysian C A 1 95 1. First Hong Kong 1.10 1 Second Hong Kong .80 sterling Commodity 4/6 4 (•Hon« Kor> -urr'
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